http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/how-tracy-morgans-near-death-accident-made-him-funnier-20160324

"Comedy is who you are, where you're from, and perfection." http://www.wired.com/2016/03/jeff-nichols-midnight-special/

Before Nichols wrote his first screenplay, he told his father that it would be about New York mobsters. Gently, his dad suggested that, instead, he write about “a place you know that others don’t.” The result was Shotgun Stories, set amid the cotton fields and back roads of southeastern Arkansas.

6. If you could tweak something about the way baseball (or sports) is covered, what would it be? I’d want to see more of an emphasis on original and creative thinking and less of an emphasis on daily minutiae. That can take many forms: It can be hard-hitting news reporting that nobody else has, a creative feature idea or even just a unique slant on a well-worn topic. For every journalist, a good day should be writing something that nobody else wrote. It’s coming up with something that nobody else came up with. Often, that means looking beyond the confines of the game on the field every day. Few fans — few, not all — genuinely care about which middling relief pitcher is getting called up to replace another middling relief pitcher. Few fans — few, not all — need daily coverage about a starter’s bullpen session. Almost all fans want something they’ve never read before, something they had never thought about or considered. I’m so lucky to work at a newspaper that values this sort of reporting, and is willing to let me ignore the small things and focus on bigger, different stories.

https://mvork.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/a-qa-with-the-wsjs-jared-diamond-covering-aroldis-chapman-listening-to-springsteen-and-twitter/